Lee Atchison

Lee Atchison is a recognized industry thought leader in cloud computing and the author of the bestselling book Architecting for Scale (O'Reilly), currently in its second edition. Lee has 36 years of industry experience, including eight year at New Relic and seven years at Amazon and AWS, where he led the creation of the companyâ s first software download store, created AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and managed the migration of Amazon's retail platform to a new service-based architecture. Lee has consulted with leading organizations on how to modernize their application architectures and transform their organizations at scale. Lee is an industry expert and is widely quoted in publications such as InfoWorld, Diginomica, IT Brief, Programmable Web, CIO Review, and DZone. He has been a featured speaker at events across the globe from London to Sydney, Tokyo to Paris, and all over North America.